Looking to learn everything there is to know about 7 Days to Die farming? This complete guide will have you producing a stable food source in no time at all. Farming is the best way to guarantee a stable food supply and should not be overlooked. The mechanics are quite simple but little information is given in the game on how to get started. Fear not, when we are done with this guide you will know everything you need to know about how to start a farm of your own!
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Seeds: Types and Where to Find Them
There are 13 different crops that you can grow in 7 Days to Die. Below is a chart listing each seed and the best ways to acquire them. As should be noted, this list is just some basic information to get you started. If you want more information about each seed and the plant it grows, check out the 7 Days to Die Wiki page. Provided that you acquire your first seeds and start planting your crops, you can grow a self-sustaining source of seeds from there on out. Player-grown crops have a 50% chance to drop a seed when harvested and if you increase your yield, you can craft more seeds from a portion of your harvest.
Seed Chart
| Seed Types | Best Ways to Find |
| Aloe Seed | Find a desert and harvest aloe plants. Loot food and drink containers. |
| Blueberry Seed | Find a snowy forest and harvest them. Check garden beds at ordinary houses to harvest blueberry plants from them. |
| Chrysanthemum Seed | See a red flower, over there… and over there… and over there… punch them. |
| Coffee Seed | Find a corn field near a farm, look for the green stalks, and harvest the corn plants. |
| Corn Seed | Find a corn field near a farm, look for the green stalks and harvest the corn plants. |
| Cotton Seed | See a puffy white plant, over there… and over there… and over there… punch them. |
| Goldenrod Seed | See a yellow flower, over there… and over there… and over there… punch them. |
| Hop Seed | Loot food and drink containers, check traders. |
| Mushroom Seed | Loot food and drink containers, can find mushrooms in caves to harvest. |
| Pumpkin Seed | Loot food and drink containers, check traders. |
| Potato Seed | Loot food and drink containers, coffee machines, and check traders. |
| Super Corn Seed | Look for a potato field near a farm, they will look like small bushes, and harvest the potato plants. |
| Yucca Seed | Find a desert and harvest yucca plants. Loot food and drink containers. |
7 Days to Die Farming Basics
Now that you have some seeds to plant, let’s go over the planting and harvesting process. The first thing you will need is plots to plant your seeds in. Each plot can grow one plant, therefore you will want several of them. Crafting a farm plot requires 4 wood, 10 rotting flesh, 25 nitrate powder, and 100 clay. It should be noted that living off the Land level 1 reduces these requirements by 30% and level 3 by 50%.
Harvesting road kill can be an easy way to get rotten flesh and nitrate powder for your plots. Additionally, cutting up any corpses you find while looting has the same result. Now that you have some plots, place them where you would like to grow your crops. Make sure this location has plenty of light for the crops to grow. However, mushrooms do not require light to grow and can be planted in the dark.
Now that you have your plots ready to go, it is time to plant. Simply place your seeds in your inventory hotbar and use them on the plots. The name of the plant will show followed by its growing stage. It will go through 3 stages, the “seedling” stage, a middle “growing” stage, and a ready-to-harvest “plant” stage. You will know when a plant is ready to harvest when the plant no longer says “seedling” or “growing” when looking at it. It will take a little over 2 hours for your crops to fully mature. Lastly, when your crops are finished growing simply punch them to harvest the plant.
Increasing Your Crop Yield
Without knowing how to optimize your yield, you will find farming to be fruitless work. At a base level, the time to grow a seed and the yield you receive are not very sustainable. While it might start like this, there are a few easy ways to dramatically increase your farm’s yield. First and foremost putting points into Living off the Land dramatically increases the number of crops you receive when harvesting. Level 2 gives you a 50% chance to harvest an additional crop and only requires level 3 fortitude. Likewise, level 3 gives you 2 additional crops every harvest, dramatically boosting your crop output while only requiring level 5 fortitude.
The second thing you should try to do is keep the seeds you find while looting. Each seed takes several of your crops to make and you only get a seed 50% of the time when harvesting. If you hang onto the seeds you find while looting, you can save yourself a handful of crops each time you replant. This is very important to do, especially before you acquire level 3 Living off the Land. That is all you need to know about 7 Days to Die farming to drastically increase your crop yield.
Best Crops to Grow
You might be asking yourself which crops should I try to focus on. I suggest you check out our best 7 Days to Die food article and see what ingredients of the best foods you can grow. This can help you get a stable source of some of the best foods. Other crops you want to focus on include coffee, aloe, super corn, and hops. Grow enough coffee and you can drink it like water. The constant stamina per second boost will definitely be noticed. Secondly, having a steady source of aloe for first-aid bandages is a must. Now we get to some very important late-game crops. Super corn and beer (which requires hops) are needed to make Grandpa’s Learn’n Elixir which boosts your experience gain by 20%. This is amazing to take during blood moons or when upgrading large amounts of blocks to quickly gain levels.